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218. New Locality for Halimus pedunculatus . — I have much pleasure in sending 

 you what is, I believe, an unrecorded station for the rare Halimus pedunculatus. I 

 found it in August last, growing not very plentifully in the salt marsh about two miles 

 below Gravesend. — Id. ; September 17, 1 842. 



219. Additional Manchester Plants. Allow me to mal^e the following additions to 

 the list of Manchester plants, (Phytol. 279). 



Avena fatua with its fruit as figured in Leighton's 



Ballota ru derails Flora, the other with its fruit agree- 



Callitriche pedunculata, /3. sessilis, (Bab.) ing with Leighton's figure of the 



Camelina sativa fruit of C. paniculata. 



Carex angustifolia, (Sm.) Digitaria sanguinalis. Heap bridge, near 



ampullacea, var. longicarpa, (mihi). Bury 



This plant is found at Hale Moss j Doronicum Pardalianches. Near Little- 

 it differs from the common state of borough 

 the plant, in its fruit being much Hieracium boreale 

 longer in proportion to its breadth. Potamogeton oblongus 



teretiuscula. Two varieties ; one Reseda alba 



Of Scleranthus I have two very different fonns from the neighbou'rhood of Man- 

 chester, neither of them will be S. perennis, but as I have no wish at present to speak 

 on their specific identity, but merely to call the attention of botanists to the capsules 

 of the plants belonging to this genus, perhaps some of us will be able to make out the 

 number of seeds contained in each. Lightfoot says " Sem. 2, calyce inclusa, (' Flora 

 Scotica,' 225) ; Withering says, " Seed single, egg-shaped, inclosed by the gristly tube 

 of the cup," (' Systematic Arrangement of British Plants,' 5th edition, vol. i. p. 240) ; 

 Smith says " Seeds 2, convex at one side, flat on the other," (' English Flora,' 282) ; 

 Hooker says " Capsule one-seeded, covered by the calyx," (' British Flora,' 1st ed. 188). 

 — Samuel Gibson ; Hebden Bridge, September 5, 1842. 



220. Anagallis arvensis with White Flowers. In the course of one of my rambles 

 this month, I gathered a specimen of Anagallis arvensis, answering precisely to that 

 described by Sir W. Hooker, viz., the " flowers pure white, with a small, well-defined, 

 bright purplish-pink eye in the centre of every corolla,'' said to have been found by 

 Mr. John Dillwyn, at Penllegare, S. Wales. I coidd find but one plant, but I shall 

 examine the field carefully next year, and earlier in the season, as my specimen had 

 only two flowers on it, the rest having formed capsules. I should imagine that the 

 specimen gathered by Mr. Dillwyn is the only one upon record. — Henry Lascelles 

 Jenner ; Chiselhurst, Kent, September 19, 1842. 



221. Botanical chair at King^s College. We are pleased to see the name of Mr. 

 E. Forbes advertized for the summer course on Botany. — Ed. 



Art. XCI. — Proceedinys of Societies. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



September 3, 1842. — John Reynolds, Esq., Treasurer, in the chair The following 

 donations were announced : — British plants from the President, from Mr, B. D. War- 

 dale, Mr. G. W. Francis, the Rev. T. Butler and Mr. T. Sansom. Mr. B. D. War- 

 dale presented numerous specimens of Lastrcea cristata (Presl), collected at Bawsey 

 Bottom, near Lynn, Norfolk. Donations to the Library were announced from the 

 American Academy of Sciences, Philadelphia, the Egyptian Society, Mr. G. W. Fran- 

 cis and Mr. S. P. Woodward. 



